The Millionaire (Season 3)

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

  • Poster for The Kathy Munson Story

    The Kathy Munson Story (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1956-09-12

    Overview: Kathy Munson becomes ill and her twin sister Marion takes her place in order to keep the family business afloat. Complications unsue when Marion falls for her sister Kathy's beau, who doesn't know there is a twin.

  • Poster for The Jane Carr Story

    The Jane Carr Story (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1956-09-19

    Overview: After receiving her check, a woman goes undercover at a trucking company that her reporter husband was investigating in connection with a narcotics ring to find clues in the husband's car bomb murder.

  • Poster for The Anna Hartley Story

    The Anna Hartley Story (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1956-09-26

    Overview: A loyal wife believes so much in her artist husband despite her mother's protestations that the husband is a freeloader and a pretend artist that she will spend her fortune for the husband's credibility and fame.

  • Poster for The Charles Hartford Simpson Story

    The Charles Hartford Simpson Story (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1956-10-03

    Overview: Charles Simpson uses his money to move from a home for indigent World War I veterans whose residents he dislikes to luxurious surroundings bringing his friend Stony with him but 'Stony' misses the home's camaraderie.

  • Poster for The Fred Graham Story

    The Fred Graham Story (Episode 5)

    Writer: Mary C. McCall, Jr.

    Air date: 1956-10-10

    Overview: Fred Graham editor of the Surfside Sun, decides to do good and ends up falling for a gangster's daughter.

  • Poster for The Virginia Lennart Story

    The Virginia Lennart Story (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1956-10-17

    Overview: Hamburger waitress Virginia Lennart receives the million and takes her best friend Emmy and they go through Europe looking for romance and find it in a Palazzo in Italy with a certain count.

  • Poster for The Denny Havens Story

    The Denny Havens Story (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1956-10-24

  • Poster for The Joey Diamond Story

    The Joey Diamond Story (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1956-10-31

    Overview: A no-good punk gets a chance to make something of his life and ends up endangering his girl, via ""The Wild One"" rip-off street race.

  • Poster for The David Tremayne Story

    The David Tremayne Story (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1956-11-07

    Overview: A young lawyer becomes politically active and runs against the political crooks who try to destroy his character.

  • Poster for The Waldo Francis Turner Story

    The Waldo Francis Turner Story (Episode 10)

    Writer: Seeleg Lester

    Air date: 1956-11-14

    Overview: Butler Waldo Francis Turner receives the million dollars and helps out his employer and his son unaware that everyone thinks he is in love with Wainwright's daughter.

  • Poster for The Jay Powers Story

    The Jay Powers Story (Episode 11)

    Air date: 1956-11-21

    Overview: After serving time in prison for embezzlement and receiving the million dollars, Jay Powers sets out to prove his innocence.

  • Poster for The Harvey Borden Story

    The Harvey Borden Story (Episode 12)

    Air date: 1956-11-28

    Overview: Harvey Borden the savior of the underdogs comes to the aide of an orphan against his wife's wishes.

  • Poster for The Valerie Hunt Story

    The Valerie Hunt Story (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1956-12-05

    Overview: When a woman's first husband believed killed in war returns after years in a prison camp, the woman must choose between the brusque first husband and more sedate second husband.

  • Poster for The Salvatore Michelangelo Buonarotti Story

    The Salvatore Michelangelo Buonarotti Story (Episode 14)

    Writer: Danny Arnold

    Air date: 1956-12-12

    Overview: A struggling immigrant shoemaker uses his entire check to buy the painting of his dreams which he must exchange for a copy to use the money to further dreams of his family.

  • Poster for The Mildred Kester Story

    The Mildred Kester Story (Episode 15)

    Writer: Ed Adamson

    Air date: 1956-12-19

    Overview: When Henry Denson deduces that his sister-in-law Mildred has a great sum of money, he plots the murder of Mildred and her husband to be Fred so that his wife will inherit the money.

  • Poster for The Betty Perkins Story

    The Betty Perkins Story (Episode 16)

    Air date: 1956-12-26

    Overview: Betty moves to Miami to find love and excitement instead she finds a switchboard operator job and snobs.

  • Poster for The Nick Cannon Story

    The Nick Cannon Story (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1957-01-02

    Overview: Nick Cannon secretly uses his money and openly his time to rehabilitate a boy that in his reckless youth he has injured in a hit and run and develops feelings for the boy and his mother.

  • Poster for The Nancy Wellington Story

    The Nancy Wellington Story (Episode 18)

    Writer: Carolyn Slade

    Air date: 1957-01-09

    Overview: Widow Nancy Wellington who has made due after her husband's death longs for romance from a man from her past. Her daughter feels her mother has sacrificed enough for her and runs away.

  • Poster for The Russell Herbert Story

    The Russell Herbert Story (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1957-01-16

    Overview: Michael Anthony can't believe that a hermit could be the correct recipient of the check.

  • Poster for The Anton Bohrman Story

    The Anton Bohrman Story (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1957-01-23

    Overview: Charles Korvin portrays a renowned Polish pianist whose fingers were damaged during World War II by the Nazis for refusing to divulge information on insurgents in the underground, thus ruining his career. Then Michael Anthony delivers to him the million dollar check.

  • Poster for The Charles Wyatt Story

    The Charles Wyatt Story (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1957-01-30

    Overview: Charles Wyatt uses his money to search for his son, reported missing during the War.

  • Poster for The Jim Driskill Story

    The Jim Driskill Story (Episode 22)

    Writer: Jerry Adelman

    Air date: 1957-02-06

    Overview: Deep sea diver and adventurer Jim Driskill finds more than he was looking for.

  • Poster for The Professor Amberson Adams Story

    The Professor Amberson Adams Story (Episode 23)

    Air date: 1957-02-13

    Overview: Professor Adams has his hands full when he falls for one of his students and sets his friend out to woo her.

  • Poster for The Judge William Westholme Story

    The Judge William Westholme Story (Episode 24)

    Air date: 1957-02-20

    Overview: An ex-con goes after the judge who sentenced him and his target is the Judge's family.

  • Poster for The Jerry Bell Story

    The Jerry Bell Story (Episode 25)

    Writer: Jerry Adelman

    Air date: 1957-02-27

    Overview: Jerry Bell believes that he is unloved because he is ugly but finds love with a blind woman and uses his million to cure her blindness although he thinks she will reject him once able to see.

  • Poster for The Jerry Patterson Story

    The Jerry Patterson Story (Episode 26)

    Air date: 1957-03-06

    Overview: Pete Hill starts a stalking campaign against Jerry Patterson who was his best friend and business partner because Pete believes Jerry's apparent good fortune is evidence that Jerry has cheated him out of his share of a uranium find.

  • Poster for The Jimmy Reilly Story

    The Jimmy Reilly Story (Episode 27)

    Air date: 1957-03-13

    Overview: Jimmy Reilly uses his check to look for an Italian girl he met during the War.

  • Poster for The Rose Russell Story

    The Rose Russell Story (Episode 28)

    Air date: 1957-03-27

  • Poster for The Doctor Alan March Story

    The Doctor Alan March Story (Episode 29)

    Air date: 1957-04-03

    Overview: Dr. Alan March lets down a very good friend who dies on the operating table, holding himself responsible he quits his practice and searches for an old love.

  • Poster for The Crystal Sands Story

    The Crystal Sands Story (Episode 30)

    Writer: Jerry Adelman

    Air date: 1957-04-10

    Overview: A waitress in love with a philandering Airline pilot finds true love with his brother.

  • Poster for The Maggie Sheeler Story

    The Maggie Sheeler Story (Episode 31)

    Air date: 1957-04-17

    Overview: Widow Maggie Sheeler is perplexed by her son who won't accept her new boyfriend.

  • Poster for The Carol Wesley Story

    The Carol Wesley Story (Episode 32)

    Air date: 1957-04-24

    Overview: Actress Carol Wesley falls in love with a producer.

  • Poster for The Hub Grimes Story

    The Hub Grimes Story (Episode 33)

    Air date: 1957-05-01

    Overview: Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.

  • Poster for The Chris Daniels Story

    The Chris Daniels Story (Episode 34)

    Air date: 1957-05-08

    Overview: A horse trainer buys after receiving his check a horse being sought by a wealthy stable owner whose daughter he courts so is accused by the owner of conspiring with a criminal element to acquire the funds for the purchase.

  • Poster for The Josef Marton Story

    The Josef Marton Story (Episode 35)

    Air date: 1957-05-15

    Overview: Tortured by his conscience, a revolutionary refugee from a failed rebellion uses his money to find and provide for a small boy whose parents he killed in the war.

  • Poster for The Ted McAllister Story

    The Ted McAllister Story (Episode 36)

    Air date: 1957-05-22

    Overview: Ted McAllister, a parole officer for juvenile deliquents, helps them take a trip around the world - against his wife's wishes to just let them rot in jail.

  • Poster for The Dan Larsen Story

    The Dan Larsen Story (Episode 37)

    Air date: 1957-05-29

    Overview: Dan Larsen. head supermarket cashier of extreme punctuality and regimentation, is robbed of a sizable deposit despite a complicated system to disguise the exact date on which the actual deposit will occur.

  • Poster for The Diane Loring Story

    The Diane Loring Story (Episode 38)

    Air date: 1957-06-05

  • Poster for The Bob Fielding Story

    The Bob Fielding Story (Episode 39)

    Air date: 1957-06-12

    Overview: Hotel desk clerk Bob Fielding gets into a poker game and his so-called friends take advantage of him after they learn he has money to burn.

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